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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are two things Bishop and Moore can do together, as described in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?
(a) Walking and having tea.
(b) Shopping and talking.
(c) Walking and talking.
(d) Writing and having lunch.

2. What happens in "A Miracle for Breakfast"?
(a) A man scatters crumbs.
(b) A man calls room service.
(c) A man has only coffee for breakfast.
(d) A man does not share his roll.

3. What does the man in "The Gentleman of Shalott" believe about being only part of a man?
(a) That only a whole man is enough.
(b) That half is enough.
(c) That one third is enough.
(d) That one quarter is enough.

4. To what does the poet compare the long, relentless rain in "Questions of Travel"?
(a) A politician's speech.
(b) A preacher's nose.
(c) A politician's nose.
(d) A preacher's sermon.

5. What is described in the poem "Paris, 7 A.M."?
(a) Waking.
(b) Arriving in Paris.
(c) Riding a train.
(d) Observing a courtyard from an apartment window.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Bishop so eager to have Moore visit her?

2. In what time of day does "At the Fishhouses" take place?

3. What does Bishop display towards Moore in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

4. How is the house in "Jeronimo's House" decorated?

5. What do several of the poems in North and South pay homage?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the significance of the title of "The Prodigal"?

2. How does Bishop portray the hermit's loneliness in "Chemin de Fer"?

3. Does Bishop see the ocean as ever-changing or never changing in the poems in Cold Spring?

4. How are the poems in North and South devoted to morning different?

5. How does Bishop portray water in the poems in North and South?

6. What is the significance of the trees capturing the music in "View of the Capitol from the Library of Congress"?

7. Why does Bishop chose the word "flying" in "Invitation to Miss Marianne Moore"?

8. In "Electrical Storm," why are the pearls twice described as dead?

9. What is Bishop comparing in "Large Bad Picture" when she refers to "commerce or contemplation"?

10. How is the writing style in "The Riverman" unlike most of Bishop's poems?

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